Good morning! After a long weekend, things started slow yesterday but really picked up steam. Here’s an overview of the day’s hottest stories… The Supreme Court has a big week planned… Attorney-Client privilege is becoming an issue back east… Bill LeBeau has moved to Holland & Knight… Performance reviews have begun at Fulbright… and the judiciary is feeling [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 8, 2009
State budge cuts in Georgia have caused an ongoing crises in the Georgia court system. In May, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue ordered 25% cuts to all state agencies, but then Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court Leah Ward Searsclaimed that Perdue didn’t have the authority to include the judiciary, a seperate and equal [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 24, 2009
Seyfarth Shaw has added lawyers to its intellectual property and corporate & finance groups in Atlanta, Georgia. Jack D. Todd joins as a partner from Morris, Manning & Martin. His practice concentrates on patent and trademark prosecution, strategic counseling, enforcement and protection of IP, transactional, licensing, opinion, and clearance. His JD is from Duke University School [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 8, 2009
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A JDJournal tipster informs us that Atlanta’s King & Spalding, which laid off 37 lawyers and 85 staff in March, is “converting a significant number of associates to staff attorneys.” That’s all the information we have at the moment. If you know anything about the situation at King & Spalding, please — send us a confidential [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 6, 2009
Seyfarth Shaw, which last week brought on a new team of corporate and technology partners from Alston & Bird, is expanding its Atlanta office with lawyers poached from Troutman Sanders. Robert C. Stevens joins as a partner in Seyfarth Shaw’s Labor & Employment Department. He concentrates his practice on litigation and counseling matters involving employment discrimination, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 2, 2009
Chicago-based Seyfarth Shaw, which in May laid off 50 people and reduced salaries, has brought on a new team of corporate and technology partners from Alston & Bird. Robert C. Reynolds, Jr. is an outsourcing lawyer who co-founded Alston & Bird’s energy infrastructure team. He received his JD from the Vanderbilt University Law School, where he [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Today Atlanta’s Alston & Bird informed its associates that the firm is reducing all associate salaries by $5,000. At this time, the firm expects to reverse the salary cut at the end of the year. In April, Alston & Bird laid off 14 lawyers and 38 staff, but offered the lawyers affected what amounts to a public [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Morrison & Foerster has hired two outsourcing experts from Alston & Bird. Christopher Ford and Scott Stevenson advised the state of Georgia in a $1.7 billion contract to outsource information technology services for various state agencies. The two join Morrison & Foerster’s Washington, DC office. Ford joins as a partner, and Stevenson as of counsel. In May, the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Birmingham, Alabama law firm Leitman, Siegal & Payne will acquire cross-town rival Campbell, Gidiere, Lee, Sinclair & Williams. The two firms will move together into a new headquarters. The combination will take effect April 1st, but it’s probably real anyway. The new name will be Leitman, Siegal, Payne & Campbell. The firm will have 20 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 20, 2009
Troutman Sanders announced today that the firm will lay off associates and offer staff a voluntary buyout, which is likely to be followed by a layoff. The 778-lawyer firm also pushed back the start date for its 2009 first-year associates to January, 2010 and cut two weeks from its summer associate program. Robert W. Webb Jr., the [...]
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